(TFC) – The Brexit camp is forced to deal with the realities of their campaigning. The government’s most recent position paper opposes any form of physical infrastructure between Northern Ireland, which is currently under British rule, and the Republic of…

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s foreign minister decried the wrong policy that Washington has adopted on Tehran after the US Senate’s move to approve a bill on new anti-Iran sanctions, saying he will raise the subject of the US breach of…

China (Tasnim) – China said it will work with the European Union to uphold the international agreement on climate change even if the US pulls out. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his decision on whether to pull the United…

United States (Conversation) – The Trump administration has announced the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Should we expect any substantive effect on global climate efforts or changes to other U.S. climate policies? Some suggest there…

Syria (Tasnim) – A British journalist and political analyst said the White Helmets in Syria are being “supported, funded and equipped” by a number of foreign governments, including the US and UK. “This is extraordinary. The Nusra Front is about two…

Turkey (OpenDemocracy) – As Europe is distancing itself from Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian regime, the UK is getting closer. Is it to sell them even more weapons? It is now ten months since Turkish government declared a state of emergency in response…

Turkey (EAN) – Before he immersed himself in politics, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was a moderately talented footballer. It is not surprising, then, that when he reflected on mid-April’s constitutional referendum in Turkey, a vote that narrowly approved the creation…

Europe (NM) – With warnings that as many as one million migrants are already on the way to to Libya and Europe from countries across Africa, Europe’s refugee crisis seems set to get even worse. From police brutality at borders to squalid conditions…

Europe (FEE) – In the desperate-looking effort to make the European Union look appealing following the United Kingdom triggering Article 50 (which starts the process of the UK leaving the Union), many different statements about the EU are re-surfacing. A prominent…

Italy (NI) – ‘They are throwing us on the street like dogs,’ says one person. In the weeks leading up to International Roma Day on 8 April, EU leaders in Brussels paid great lip service to Roma, Europe’s largest and most…

Germany (Tasnim) – Germany said Tuesday it is refraining from transferring asylum seekers to Hungary under EU rules until Budapest gives assurances that the migrants would not be systematically detained. Under the so-called Dublin rules, asylum seekers are meant to be…

United Kingdom (OpenDemocracy) – Will Brexit ultimately result in a united federal Ireland in a confederation with Scotland, in the EU – with England and Wales outside it? Ireland was described by the French writer Jean Blanchard in 1958 as “an…

Ukraine (EAN) – Western media may not be paying much attention now to Ukraine, but this does not mean that the conflict there has been frozen, much less settled. The ceasefire concluded in February 2015 has not held, and the frontline…

Europe (SCF) – Turkey’s relationship with the EU and NATO appears to have plumbed new lows. Ankara’s agreement with the EU to help hold back a flood of migrants is about to end. On March 13, Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus announced the…

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